Adam Serwer, a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Shorenstein fellow, discusses the lasting appeal of white supremacist ideology in light of an avowed white supremacist’s attack on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people and injured dozens more.
Disadvantaged students today are doing no better compared to their advantaged peers than they were in 1954, despite countless programs to bridge this gap. The blame, say researchers, lies in a decline in teacher quality.
Harvard scholar Nara Dillon is seeking lessons on poverty reduction from China’s success, part of Harvard’s long-running, broad engagement with the world’s most populous nation that continues over spring break when President Larry Bacow visits.
As part of the class “GeoSciFi Movies: Real vs. Fiction,” students took part in a role-playing game that had them play the parts of the government and citizens of the island of Montserrat, as well as a group of scientists monitoring the island’s volcano.
The Gazette follows students working at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a student-run legal services organization that helps students practice law in the real world, as they represent young immigrants and help them start new lives in their new country.
Jin Park ’18, a DACA recipient and Rhodes scholar, testified before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday about the “impossible position” he and others like him are now in if they leave the U.S. to study or work as a result of termination of protections.
A seminar at Harvard’s Kennedy School, planned to assess the outcomes of the Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam, instead dissected the meeting’s “failure” and what it means for diplomacy.
Former Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who excited Democrats’ hopes with his progressive message in Florida’s gubernatorial race in November, will work with students at the Institute of Politics this semester to expand ideas of how change happens.
Madga Matache is the head of the Roma Program at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (Harvard FXB), where she is shedding light on the lives of Romani children and teens who continue to face racism and discrimination in and out of the classroom.
Newly named general editor of a book project documenting espionage and intelligence throughout human history, Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow Calder Walton discusses the context of the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s connections to Russia and how spies and spying have evolved over centuries.
Harvard defended its admissions policies in U.S. District Court in Boston in a final hearing as part of a lawsuit that could change the landscape for higher education.
Pervasive racism and hate requires a response that addresses it at various levels, from politics to public safety to schools, experts at a Harvard Chan School forum said.
As NATO approaches its 70th anniversary, a new report from Harvard Kennedy School affiliates says the stalwart military alliance is in “crisis,” facing challenges from outside and within like never before.
Harvard Kennedy’s School’s Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Center for International Development and professor of the practice of economic development, discusses deteriorating conditions in Venezuela.
The Institute of Politics’ National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement weekend-long conference drew approximately 125 students and school administrators, who shared notes on campus voting initiatives in the 2018 elections and brainstormed how to expand on them in 2020.
Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, a 2017 Harvard Nieman Fellow, and his Iranian wife, journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a fall 2016 Shorenstein Fellow, talk about their experiences as prisoners of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Giving a talk at the American Enterprise Institute in D.C., Harvard President Larry Bacow reaffirmed his support for colleges and universities and his belief that they can help change the world, despite fears Americans are increasingly questioning the value of a college degree.
With the launch of a new national initiative and a network of district partners, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will partner with rural schools to move the needle on absenteeism and college readiness and enrollment.
With input from Harvard and other educational institutions, the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts submitted written comments this week to the U.S. Department of Education, responding to its proposed changes to Title IX.
As Super Bowl LIII approaches, political reporter Mark Leibovich, now a national correspondent for The New York Times magazine and author of the 2013 best-seller “This Town,” discusses the intersection of politics and the National Football League.
A conference at the Edmond J. Safra Center will examine the life and works of the late Harvard Professor John Rawls, whom many consider the father of modern political philosophy.
Weeks into a federal government shutdown over the president’s request for money to build a border wall to keep out migrants coming from Central America and Mexico, Harvard analysts discuss the practical, legal, and historical implications of Donald Trump’s possible move to declare a national emergency to bypass congressional opposition.
Two efforts at Harvard are helping state and city officials in Boston and around the nation frame their early policy thinking around autonomous vehicles.
The community group Unidos por Utuado has won $100,000 in seed funding from the Puerto Rico Big Ideas Challenge to implement a plan — designed by Harvard students — for renewable and affordable electricity.
Former Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, who has held numerous top posts in the State Department and on Capitol Hill and led the U.S. negotiations with Iran over nuclear weapons that resulted in a historic 2015 accord, is set to helm the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School in January. She talks to the Gazette about her plans and her view of U.S. foreign policy today.
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